Jean-Évangéliste ROY

Born

abt. 1829 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

16 June 1895 , Aumond, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Québec, Canada

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Augustin ROY Marie-Marguerite CARDINAL

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Born: abt. 1829 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Augustin ROY

Mother: Marie-Marguerite CARDINAL

Paternal grandparents: Charles ROY , Marguerite GONTHIER

Maternal grandparents: Jacques CARDINAL , Marie-Agathe GEMME (JAMMES) dite CARRIERE

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Jean-Évangéliste married Elmire EMARD dite POTVIN 22 September 1851 in St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elmire EMARD dite POTVIN was born 22 October 1832 in Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada. Elmire died 23 August 1918 in Aumond, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Québec, Canada. Elmire was the child of Louis EMARD dit POTVIN and Angélique BARBEAU.

Jean-Évangéliste ROY died 16 June 1895 in Aumond, La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Jean-Évangéliste ROY married

Elmire EMARD dite POTVIN
Marriage date: 22 September 1851
Marriage place: St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada
Elmire EMARD dite POTVIN was the child of Louis EMARD dit POTVIN and Angélique BARBEAU

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Cleophyre ROY

Born: 5 May 1865, Lac-Sainte-Marie, Canada East
Died: 1 May 1930, Maniwaki, Québec, Canada

Married: Antoine NADON 25 June 1883 Place: Maniwaki, Québec, Canada (River Desert) (L'Assomption-de-Maniwaki)

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1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Évangéliste ROY and Elmire EMARD dite POTVIN 22 September 1851, St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Birth of Child
Cleophyre ROY was born 5 May 1865, Lac-Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Hincks)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.